124 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [March, 1913. 
battle that was then being fought regarding the relative posi- 
tion and value of what at the time was called Northern and 
Southern Buddhistic literature. On one side there was the 
texts give a picture of Buddhism essentially differing from 
that presented by the Nepalese ones. The Northern Buddhism 
human figure of the Buddha was 
and thanks to its resources Pro : 
tators have been able to publish 
ore important texts of the Sutta and the Abhi- 
dharma Pitaka. And, whatever lacunae still were left are now 
